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Learn to live well with self-care on OpenLearn
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learn to live well with self-care on OpenLearn

...family and friends, finding ways to relax and more physical exercise. We've got some great ideas to help you get started! ...Explore these articles and courses to help give you inspiration. Change doesn't have to be overwhelming. Just add one change in your life and build from there, even getting out for a walk each day can help boost your mood and improve physical health!...
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Article 5 mins
International Men's Day
Miscellaneous

International Men's Day

...celebrates the “positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities” and this collection of OpenLearn resources is designed to reflect that message. This year we also acknowledge the theme of “zero male suicide”, and hope our article on the subject, and accompanying content, offers some insight, encouragement and positivity to those who need it....
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Article 5 mins
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...trees and bushes. These form the diet of the browsers. SAQ 13 There are some important differences between grass and other herbaceous plants as food and the leaves of trees and bushes as food. Consider two of these: (a) how much might be available in a given area; and (b) how they might each be affected by drought. Write a few sentences about each of these differences, on...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...tree. You find it only in the Savannah area. It’s hard, so we broke it in pieces, like this, and soak it with water for twenty-four hours. Catherine (VO) The softened bark is pounded in a mortar and is used to produce the dye for stamping the symbols. Repeated boiling and filtering produces a concentrated solution. Gabriel a/b PTC Out of forty-eight gallons, I’m going...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Alexandra Kollontai

...family responsibilities. Alexandra Kollontai, however, who was inspired by Marxist ideas to join the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party at the age of 27, showed that it was possible to follow a different path. She was eventually to become the most prominent woman in the Soviet administration following the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 when was appointed People's...
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Article 5 mins
Further uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Further uses of genetic testing

...family. Genetic testing can use this to work out how two people are related to each other, by analysing how well their DNA profiles match. This can range from identifying a child’s biological father using paternity testing, to mapping whole family relationships over time through genetic genealogy. Genetic ancestry testing uses a similar idea of comparing a person’s...
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The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor
History & The Arts

The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor

...family tree in Wells, pp. 64–5) claimed power by descent and thus it generally assisted and justified their own position to celebrate Augustus and his achievements. To a degree this was true not just of the Julio-Claudians but all subsequent emperors. This is not to say that Augustus was above criticism in the centuries that followed his life (for example, see Tacitus,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural development, self-care skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the relationship of behaviour to...
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